Kaiser Health News expanding in South, names Miller interim bureau chief

Kaiser Health News is expanding its operation and health journalism across the South with $2.3 million in funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It plans to establish a Southern bureau with a home office in Atlanta and nine new positions to support reporting in at least five states. Kaiser Health also will work with […]

A departure at Kaiser Health News

Tarena Lofton, assistant social media manager at Kaiser Health News, has left. Lofton joined KHN in 2019 as a social media intern. Before that, she was a congressional communications intern at the U.S. House of Representatives. She was also a legal assistant at Grant & Grant Attorneys At Law. She was also a public affairs […]

Industry Dive hires Dubnow as associate editor

Shoshana Dubnow has joined BioPharma Dive at Industry Dive as an associate editor. Recently, she was a reporter, database manager at Kaiser Health News. She has also worked at the Associated Press and was a Kaplan fellow at ABC News. She has worked as a digital producer, desk assistant and multimedia journalist/investigative reporter at KOMU […]

Kaiser Health News reporter Rodriguez departs

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, a reporter covering health care for Kaiser Health News, has left to attend Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health full-time to earn her master’s in public health Rodriguez has been with Kaiser Health News for five years and has also searched and aggregated health-related articles for “Morning Briefing” and “California Healthline […]

Kaiser Health News seeks a reporter in St. Louis

KFF, the non-profit health policy analysis, polling and journalism organization, is seeking a St. Louis-based editor/correspondent to join the staff of Kaiser Health News (KHN), the national newsroom producing and distributing in-depth journalism about health issues across the country. KHN has a vibrant and ambitious staff based in Washington, D.C., California, Missouri, Colorado and Montana. […]

Kaiser Health News hires Levey in DC

Kaiser Health News has hired Noam Levey as a reporter in its Washington office. Levey, a senior correspondent, previously spent 17 years at the Los Angeles Times, the last 12 as the paper’s national health care reporter based in Washington, D.C. He has reported on health care issues from more than three dozen states and four continents […]

Kaiser Health News hires Bichell as reporter

Kaiser Health News has hired Rae Ellen Bichell as a reporter on its Mountain States team. Bichell has been a reporter for KUNC and The Colorado Sound since January 2018, covering the region for public radio stations in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming and Idaho as part of the Mountain West News Bureau. She also worked […]

AP’s Volz joins Kaiser Health News as mountain states editor

Matt Volz has joined Kaiser Health News as mountain states editor based in Helena, Montana, where he will coordinate health care coverage of the region. Previously, Volz was editor and correspondent at the Associated Press for 18 years. He has also served as public information officer at Mercy Corps and worked as a reporter at […]

Luthra to join The 19th as health care reporter

Shefali Luthra will be joining The 19th as a health care reporter, reports Politico. Currently, Luthra is a correspondent covering health and health policy at Kaiser Health News. Before that, she was editor-in-chief and president of Brown Daily Herald Inc. where she oversaw editorial and business operations of daily campus newspaper. Luthra has also served […]

Pradhan joins Kaiser Health News as reporter

Politico health care reporter Rachana D. Pradhan will be joining Kaiser Health News to report on how policy decisions in D.C. impact people’s lives. She will be leaving Politico after five years to start her new role this coming year. Before joining Politico, Pradhan served as chief editor and associate editor at Inside Washington Publishers. […]